Here’s the debut of my new monthly program on KBOO. I’ll be on every second Friday of the month from 10pm to Midnight. It’s so new, you can smell the new show smell. I hadn’t even named it at this point, but from now on, mark your calendars for Radio Lost and Found.

I started tonight’s show with something from Nurse With Wound’sMay the Fleas of a Thousand Camels Infest Your Armpits and Space Music, mixed together simultaneously. I then played a piece from Big City Orchestra’s big 30th anniversary show, which was Wobbly, Phineas Narco and The Evolution Control Committee doing Beatle Rape live on Jan. 31st of last year. We rocked out to LCD Soundsystem, played some Macedonian (Kismet, covering Joy Division) and Polish (the unpronounceable Księżyc) music and then did our little tribute to Abraham Lincoln and the President with Disney’sGreat Moments With Mr. Lincoln, some Firesign Theater, Negativland’sGodbull, A Sen. Edward McKinley Dirksen LP, Gallant Men, Ray Martin’sThe Sounds of Sight and The Union Oil Co.’sThe Constitution LP. It all ended with Jim Larrance’s wonderful mashup of a children’s record.

A look at The BBC Radiophonics WorkshopOn this week’s A Different Nature, a look at The BBC Radiophonics Workshop. Although best known today as the creators of the Dr. Who theme, The Radiophonics Workshop supplied delightfully strange music and sound effects for British radio, television and films for the better part of 40 years.

“The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995. It was based in the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in Delaware Road, London, W9, UK growing outwards from the then-legendary Room 13. The innovative music and techniques used by the Workshop has made it one of the most significant influences on electronic music today.“

We took a look at their work, as well as some interviews and other ephemera from these Alchemists of Sound. Admittedly, it was a Delia Derbyshire-centric mix, as both Nate and I are huge fans of her work and felt she was the unsung heroine of the Radiophonic saga. Sadly, most of her acclaim seemed to have arrived posthumously, as she passed away in 2001.